Growing Food In the High Desert Country
Title | Growing Food In the High Desert Country PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Behrend Weinberg |
Publisher | Sunstone Press |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2012-01-15 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1611390559 |
“Growing Food in the High Desert County” is a comprehensive gardening book with emphasis on growing vegetables. The author seeks to help the high desert dweller cope with the problems of raising plants in a dry land. From practical experience, she learned that her familiar East coast gardening techniques were not suitable to the high country so she developed the special methods given in this book. In addition to vegetables, Ms. Weinberg discusses various aspects of fruit tree culture in the high desert and drought-tolerant perennials, shrubs and trees. A special chapter on common garden pests tells how to control them without the use of commercial pesticides. JULIE BEHREND WEINBERG studied organic horticulture and agriculture at Goddard College. She has written weekly garden columns for both the “Santa Fe Reporter” and “The Santa Fe New Mexican.”
Steens Mountain in Oregon's High Desert Country
Title | Steens Mountain in Oregon's High Desert Country PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Russell Jackman |
Publisher | Caxton Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780870040283 |
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Award winning photography and lithography sets this "coffee table" book apart from others of its type.
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Title | Sowing Seeds in the Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Masanobu Fukuoka |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1603584188 |
Argues that the Earth's deteriorating condition is man-made and outlines a way for the process to be reversed by rehabilitating the deserts using natural farming.
Organic Gardener's Companion
Title | Organic Gardener's Companion PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Shellenberger |
Publisher | Fulcrum Publishing |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2016-05-25 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1555918530 |
A comprehensive guide to growing organic produce in the Rocky Mountain and western region. Includes information on soil cultivation (the backbone of organic gardening), selection, mulching harvesting, storing, and other concerns specific to semiarid and high-altitude climates.
Xeriscape, Water-conserving Gardens
Title | Xeriscape, Water-conserving Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Kopolow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drought-tolerant plants |
ISBN |
Man, Models and Management
Title | Man, Models and Management PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey H. Altschul |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Arizona |
ISBN |
The Colorful Dry Garden
Title | The Colorful Dry Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Gilmer |
Publisher | Sasquatch Books |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2018-01-30 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1632170647 |
A design-focused, easy-to-use guide to colorful, eye-catching foliage and flowers for your whole yard, from the ground plane to the canopy, for homeowners and landscapers faced with replacing thirsty gardens in California and other dry regions in the Western US. If readers must reluctantly remove water-guzzling favorites from the garden, they need equally beautiful substitutes! This book is a visual treat that supports the transition to dry gardening by proving that gardeners can have all the gorgeous color and flowers they had in the past using just a fraction of the water. Maureen Gilmer provides chapters on design categories of plants—flowering shrubs, the ground plain, eye-catching accents, ephemeral flowers, perennials for color, animated plants and fine textures, canopy, and edibles—with profiles for each plant plus background info and top picks lists. The Colorful Dry Garden is unique because it features only bold plants that are also heavy bloomers despite heat and limited water. It also features more than just Western native plants by including varieties from the world's driest climates.